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  Ingoe Pit  Index  Ingoe Pit  

Ingoe Pit


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Matfen
9½ miles [15 km] NE of Hexham
Map Ref: (Sheet 87) NZ042754, 55° 4' 23" N, 1° 56' 3" W
Maps: 1860s map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
Opened:
Closed: 1892
Owners: 1860's - Duke of Northumberland
1880's - John Russell
Output: 1882 - Coal (Landsale).
1888 - Coal (Landsale).
1890 - Coal (Landsale).
  Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Ingoe Pit
Notes:

1892 - Coal exhausted



  Summary Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Description


  Summary Description Names Local Collieries Credits  

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


  Summary Description Disasters Local Collieries Credits  

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

      

Black, Ralph, 20 Dec 1889, aged 42, Engineman, fell under pumping beam whilst engine in motion

 
  1 name found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.


The following unnamed fatalities are listed in the Mines Inspectors Reports, once again this collection is not complete!

Date Inspectors Remarks
11 Aug 1853 11fall down engine shaft

  Summary Description Disasters Names Credits  

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

  a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Ingoe Pit

  list of collieries/pits etc. near to Ingoe Pit


  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries  

Credits

Sources:

  • 1869 List of Mines
  • 1880 List of Mines
  • 1881 Mines Inspectors Annual Report
  • 1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1889 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6015)
  • 1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

  Summary Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

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